No bargaining with his Middlemarch
India, Aug. 11 -- Many decades ago, in the hill town of Nainital, a second-hand book dealer called Dana Mian walked the hills with a coolie carrying a steel trunk filled with books on his head. Decades later, in Central Delhi's Mahila Haat, second-hand bookseller Dilshad Ali arrives every Sunday with several street trunks crammed with used books. He takes the books out of the trunks and lays them on plastic sheets, turning his allotted space into a makeshift bookstall, like the dozens around him. He has been a fixture of Delhi's Sunday Book Bazar for 25 years. His stall is particularly popular with lit students because it stocks all the English authors taught in university classes. This sweltering Sunday noon in the iconic book market, he a...
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